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Post by themirrorthief on May 5, 2018 13:56:06 GMT -5
why not ask Mary Kate and Ashley to come back as a pair of cuddly, very malnourished ewoks???
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Post by deuce on Jun 2, 2018 18:44:12 GMT -5
Major youtuber, Jeremy Jahns, weighs in:
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Post by Char-Vell on Jun 2, 2018 21:26:23 GMT -5
I've been to see Solo twice now. I thought it was pretty damn good.
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Post by johnnypt on Jun 3, 2018 7:55:39 GMT -5
I've been to see Solo twice now. I thought it was pretty damn good. Saw it last Monday, I liked it better than Last Jedi (for some people, a low bar, I know). Problem is with all the headwinds against it, it’ll be lucky to break even (I think they’re already taking a $200 million write down). Maybe this will make them settle down and try to put theatrical level stories in the movies, As much as I liked it, Solo probably could have be done on the streaming site in a few years.
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Post by Char-Vell on Jun 3, 2018 9:23:35 GMT -5
I've been to see Solo twice now. I thought it was pretty damn good. Saw it last Monday, I liked it better than Last Jedi (for some people, a low bar, I know). Problem is with all the headwinds against it, it’ll be lucky to break even (I think they’re already taking a $200 million write down). Maybe this will make them settle down and try to put theatrical level stories in the movies, As much as I liked it, Solo probably could have be done on the streaming site in a few years. There was apparently some sort of campaign to boycott it by nerds offended by The Last Jedi. It sucks, but such is the state of the world now.
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Post by johnnypt on Jun 5, 2018 12:38:38 GMT -5
Saw it last Monday, I liked it better than Last Jedi (for some people, a low bar, I know). Problem is with all the headwinds against it, it’ll be lucky to break even (I think they’re already taking a $200 million write down). Maybe this will make them settle down and try to put theatrical level stories in the movies, As much as I liked it, Solo probably could have be done on the streaming site in a few years. There was apparently some sort of campaign to boycott it by nerds offended by The Last Jedi. It sucks, but such is the state of the world now. Well, it looks like they're only going to write down $50-$80 million. That's almost pocket change! One expert thinks the film had bad marketing. He has a point (see my post a few levels up on where the heck is the trailer), but it's still a Star Wars movie, it can't be THAT hard. Talk to John Carter about bad marketing. If Disney were a lesser company, the number of big budgeted flops they've had over the past decade would've taken them out. But it's gone from the House Walt Built to the House Stan (and Jack and Steve and Roy...) Built, so it can more than manage.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Jun 5, 2018 14:18:11 GMT -5
There was apparently some sort of campaign to boycott it by nerds offended by The Last Jedi. It sucks, but such is the state of the world now. Well, it looks like they're only going to write down $50-$80 million. That's almost pocket change! One expert thinks the film had bad marketing. He has a point (see my post a few levels up on where the heck is the trailer), but it's still a Star Wars movie, it can't be THAT hard. Talk to John Carter about bad marketing. If Disney were a lesser company, the number of big budgeted flops they've had over the past decade would've taken them out. But it's gone from the House Walt Built to the House Stan (and Jack and Steve and Roy...) Built, so it can more than manage. One would assume some collective heads would roll if marketing failed so miserably it cost the company millions upon millions of dollars which was directly attributable to a failure to adequately advertise the darn movie - as in the aforementioned John Carter. If that has happened (with JC or SW), I haven't heard of it. And considering the level of marketing we endured when Frozen was released, I'd think Disney'd have that aspect down pat by now. I mean, they've only been doing this for close to a century. I've heard Han Solo was near the top of all the new Star Wars movies, but haven't seen for myself yet. Personally, excluding the original trilogy from comparison, my fav so far was Rogue One. The prequels weren't that great, and Disney's continuations have borrowed waaay to generously from the original trilogy for me. So heavily, in fact, it smacks of blatant copying for lack of creative writing. I don't know whats going on, but if the next in the series borrows just as heavily off the originals (say, another Endor scene with cutesies using wood-age weapons to destroy squads of heavily trained Sturmtruppen in Panzer-AtAts, or another trash compactor scene, etc), one may really have to wonder - WTH is going on with Disney? I just wish the frak they'd start coming up with some cool quotable quotes. The originals are so full of those, but now they're very obviously missing. I can't quote a line from these new ones. Often me and a buddy would be talking and one of us would slip in a SW quote (from the original trilogy) into the conversation. Always gets a chuckle. I've got a bad feeling about this
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Post by themirrorthief on Jun 5, 2018 23:24:06 GMT -5
they should end it with the storm trooper killing everyone in the alliance and darth vader returns but is a woman who had murdered all the top dogs in the empire and then marries Flash Gordon
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Post by Von K on Jun 7, 2018 9:51:27 GMT -5
I just wish the frak they'd start coming up with some cool quotable quotes. The originals are so full of those, but now they're very obviously missing. I can't quote a line from these new ones. Often me and a buddy would be talking and one of us would slip in a SW quote (from the original trilogy) into the conversation. Always gets a chuckle. I've got a bad feeling about this Not seen the new films, though I've been following some of the media coverage. From the trailers I thought Jyn Erso of Rogue One had at least a couple of good quotes - just not the sort that you could use humorously or casually. Rogue One is the only film that really catches my interest out of the new Disney films and seems the closest to the spirit of the originals, if a bit grim.
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Post by Char-Vell on Jun 7, 2018 9:57:00 GMT -5
I just wish the frak they'd start coming up with some cool quotable quotes. The originals are so full of those, but now they're very obviously missing. I can't quote a line from these new ones. Often me and a buddy would be talking and one of us would slip in a SW quote (from the original trilogy) into the conversation. Always gets a chuckle. I've got a bad feeling about this Not seen the new films, though I've been following some of the media coverage. From the trailers I thought Jyn Erso of Rogue One had at least a couple of good quotes - just not the sort that you could use humorously or casually. Rogue One is the only film that really catches my interest out of the new Disney films and seems the closest to the spirit of the originals, if a bit grim. I've used "I'm one with the Force, and the Force is with me." and "I'll be there for you. (insert name) said I had to." a few times.
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Post by johnnypt on Jun 7, 2018 10:07:57 GMT -5
Not seen the new films, though I've been following some of the media coverage. From the trailers I thought Jyn Erso of Rogue One had at least a couple of good quotes - just not the sort that you could use humorously or casually. Rogue One is the only film that really catches my interest out of the new Disney films and seems the closest to the spirit of the originals, if a bit grim. I've used "I'm one with the Force, and the Force is with me." and "I'll be there for you. (insert name) said I had to." a few times.
I think that's been the most quotable so far. Jyn's "I rebel" line would've been good, but they cut it.
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Post by deuce on Jul 16, 2018 12:34:34 GMT -5
Good clip from Jeremy Jahns:
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Post by johnnypt on Jul 16, 2018 13:13:36 GMT -5
Good clip from Jeremy Jahns: When your own film realizes this by calling one of the characters "General Hugs", well...
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Post by kemp on Jul 20, 2018 6:26:07 GMT -5
Some of the critiques are pretty creative and funny, and sometimes with a few truisms. Personally, I agree with some of this, but not all of it, and include it here because it was kind of amusing. I actually liked the movie by the way.
Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a Complete Cinematic Failure
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Post by deuce on Jul 20, 2018 9:15:25 GMT -5
Hamill comments on TLJ:
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